1. UBx Continuing and Professional Education
College of Arts and Sciences
May 2019
CIT Conference 2019

2. UBx UBx What are we trying to do?
Continuing and Professional Education (non-credit)
Online delivery
Easy Registration
Certificates, CEUs or Badges
Student information (basic)
What are we trying to do?
Use a LMS for online learning where departments are able to generate and keep most of the revenue
Integrate it with an online payment portal
Point-Click-Pay
Ease of use for our target audience
PCE (non-credit)
Participants (use this term instead of students)

3. What is (Open edX)
EdX is an online initiative created by Harvard and MIT
Institutions under a membership called the xConsortium (buy-in $2 million)
EdX offers interactive online courses and MOOCs
Offers many benefits
Open edX is the open source platform
freely available to the community
We have implemented it and rebranded it
CAS-CE hosts their own instance of UBx and we are currently developing classes
Another UBx goal is to encourage partnerships both internally and externally to offer a wide variety of courses delivered in manageable formats

4. UBx
UBx is the online learning platform used for Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) opportunities (non-credit) within the College of Arts and Sciences
The mission is to offer quality, online, educational content targeting professionals and non-traditional learner
Online delivery for continuing and professional education students
Revenue generating
Potential recruitment into credit programs
Opportunity for all faculty and professionals
Can be a testing ground for future credit courses
UBx
Continuing and Professional Education (non-credit)
Online delivery
Easy Registration
Certificates, CEUs or Badges
Student information (basic)

5. Key Elements Online courses
learning.buffalo.edu (create an account, enroll, pay and access course)
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Used for initial registration and enrollment
Connect to a Checkout system - Point-click-pay
Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) - Not even non-matriculated
Partnering already with SEAS, TCIE, UAlbany/Empire State College
In development – operations with CEI, UB Law
Others include: UB Dental, Social Work, Library, Pharmacy
Challenges that we are solving
CE Fee Approval process – this will affect every CE unit at UB
Policies and Procedures – building every step
Length of developing a course

6. Designed ArcGIS course
Rolls out next month
Online learning, filming, software
Maybe shouldn't have tackled this first, but faculty were enthusiastic
Designed ArcGIS course
At various stages of development
Robot Safety, Faculty development, Jupyter programming, Writing College Essays
7 courses in development
Collaboration between UB, Empire State and Albany
Some bumps in the road
Empowering Post-truth
What we did with IITG

7. What is next… Online courses Expand training for Studio portion of UBx
Expand learning.buffalo.edu
Marketing and courses
GIS course -
Expand training for Studio portion of UBx